Public Spaces, spaces of public domain: Icons of a contemporary simulacrum ?
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2020
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Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
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The contemporary city is a result of plural connections between the
historical matrix and the effects of global policies. Immersed in a flux of multiple
contents, it seems to respond to an era of transition in which the sense of belonging
to an urban space is profoundly tensioned by transformations in the cultural, social,
technological and political dimensions of public space. On the one hand, contemporary
urban territorialities bring new possibilities to issues related to urban morphology and
fabric that are still mainly culturally determined; on the other, contemporary thinking
confronts itself with the tendency of a global scenario where public life and contemporary culture are related to consumption and capital circulation. Although relations
of belonging and attachment to the urban space may persist, the flow of global
conditions seems to have an impact upon collective experience in the urban territory
and in the production of public space. These are transformations that may lead not
only to the instrumentalization of space but also to the reduction of its ‘public’ value.
In the contemporary city we observe particular processes of functional and economic
spatializations of the urban where public spaces are not conceived as spaces of a public
realm. Noting that the intersection between past/present time-cultural flows should
go beyond the (re)production of any new global paradigm of thematic urban
configurations, we argue that the theoretical constructs of the contemporary
public space, or spaces of public domain, must be representative not of a thematic
‘everywhere-nowhere’ urban environment, but rather of a public life urbanity, one built
upon awareness and around political and civic issues.
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Série Cultura e Território
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EDUCAÇÃO, EDUCATION, URBANISMO, URBANISM, ESPAÇO PÚBLICO, PUBLIC SPACE, CIDADES, CITIES, TECNOLOGIA, TECHNOLOGY